You Know It Couldn't Last chords by Morrissey

Guitar chords with lyrics

MORRISSEY - You know I couldn't last

(from album You are the Quarry)

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E minorEm
 The whisperings, may hurt you
FF
 But the printed word might kill you
E minorEm
 The whisperings, may hurt you
FF
 But the printed word might kill you
 A minorAm
So don't let the blue, the blue eyes fool you
               A augmentedA
They're just gelignite, loaded and aiming right between your eyes


E minorEm
CDs and T-shirts, promos God knows - oh!
     D MajorD
You know I couldn't last
A augmentedA
Someone, please take me home


FF
The teenagers, who love you, they will wake up, yawn and kill you
FF
The teenagers, who love you, they will wake up, yawn and kill you
    A minorAm
So don't let the blue, the blue eyes fool you
                A augmentedA
They're just gelignite, loaded and aiming right between your eyes

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E minorEm
CDs and T-shirts, promos God knows - oh!
     D MajorD
You know I couldn't last
A augmentedA
Someone, please take me home
                D/F#D/F#
There's a cash register ringing and
A augmentedA
It weighs so heavy on my back
A augmentedA
Someone please take me home


E minorEm
The critics who, can't break you
FF
They somehow help to make you
E minorEm
The critics who, can't break you
FF
Unwittingly they make you
   A minorAm
So don't let the good days, of the gold discs, creep up and mug you
         A augmentedA
No, no - No, no, no-oh!


      A augmentedA
With evil legal eagles, you know I couldn't last
A augmentedA
accountants rampant, you know I couldn't last
A augmentedA
Every -ist and every -ism, thrown my way to stay
A augmentedA
And the northern leeches go on, removing, removing, removing


FF
Then in the end, your royalties bring you luxuries, your royalties bring you
G+G
luxuries, oh but
G+G